JORDON RIVER

 EXPERIENCES OF CROSSING THE RIVER JORDAN

Jos 3:15
And as they that bare the ark were come unto Jordan, and the feet of the priests that bare the ark were dipped in the brim of the water, (for Jordan overfloweth all his banks all the time of harvest,) 
Jos 3:16
That the waters which came down from above stood  and rose up upon an heap very far from the city Adam, that  is beside Zaretan: and those that came down toward the sea of the plain,  even the salt sea, failed,  and were cut off: and the people passed over right against Jericho. 

1.CIRCUMCISED- CHANGE OF NATURE
Jos 5:7
And their children,  whom he raised up in their stead, them Joshua circumcised: for they were uncircumcised, because they had not circumcised them by the way. 
Jos 5:6
For the children of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, till all the people  that were men of war, which came out of Egypt, were consumed, because they obeyed not the voice of the LORD: unto whom the LORD sware that he would not shew them the land, which the LORD sware unto their fathers that he would give us, a land that floweth with milk and honey. 


2.GILGAL- CHANGE OF LIFE
Jos 5:9
And the LORD said unto Joshua, This day have I rolled away the reproach of Egypt from off you. Wherefore the name of the place is called Gilgal unto this day. 
Exo 14:13
And Moses said unto the people, Fear ye not, stand still, and see the salvation of the LORD, which he will shew to you to day: for the Egyptians whom ye have seen to day, ye shall see them again no more for ever. 


3.OBSERVED PASSOVER- CHANGE IN FELLOWSHIP
Jos 5:10
And the children of Israel encamped in Gilgal, and kept the passover on the fourteenth day of the month at even in the plains of Jericho. 
Luk 22:24
And there was also a strife among them, which of them should be accounted the greatest. 


CONSEQUENCES:

1.REAPED THE REWARD
Jos 5:11
And they did eat of the old corn of the land on the morrow after the passover, unleavened cakes, and parched  corn in the selfsame day. 
Jos 5:12
And the manna ceased on the morrow after they had eaten of the old corn of the land; neither had the children of Israel manna any more; but they did eat of the fruit of the land of Canaan that year. 

2.RECEIVED VISITATION OF GOD
Jos 5:13
And it came to pass, when Joshua was by Jericho, that he lifted up his eyes and looked, and, behold, there stood a man over against him with his sword drawn in his hand: and Joshua went unto him, and said unto him,  Art thou for us, or for our adversaries? 
Jos 5:14
And he said, Nay; but  as captain of the host of the LORD am I now come. And Joshua fell on his face to the earth, and did worship, and said unto him, What saith my lord unto his servant? 
Jos 5:15
And the captain of the LORD'S host said unto Joshua, Loose thy shoe from off thy foot; for the place whereon thou standest  is holy. And Joshua did so. 

3.RECEIVED VICTORY
Jos 6:20
So the people shouted when  the priests blew with the trumpets: and it came to pass, when the people heard the sound of the trumpet, and the people shouted with a great shout, that the wall fell down flat, so that the people went up into the city, every man straight before him, and they took the city.